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Album Reviews: Lou Reed - The Live Archive, Plus Music from Thomas Dolby, Chicago Farmer, and Raquel Bell

Monday, July 23, 2018

A bargain-priced box set collects three illuminating Lou Reed concerts from 1976 and 1989. Plus, a career-spanning anthology from Thomas Dolby and CDs from Chicago Farmer and Raquel Bell.

By Jeff Burger

Bentley's Bandstand: Twenty Reissue Haiku Reviews

Monday, May 21, 2018

Music industry veteran Bill Bentley is continues his innovative reissue review method: a crystalline haiku conveys his enthusiasm for music by Eric Andersen, Joseph Arthur, Sandy Bull, The Grateful Dead, Lou Reed, and much more.

By Bill Bentley

Bentley's Bandstand: October 2017

Friday, October 6, 2017

Lots of great new releases reviewed by music industry veteran Bill Bentley, including Amadou and Miriam, The Americans, Chris Hillman, The Flamin' Groovies, Joan Osborne, Van Morrison, and more—also Anthony DeCurtis' Lou Reed biography.

By Bill Bentley

Bentley's Bandstand: The Best of 2016 (Second-Half)

Friday, December 23, 2016

Bill Bentley wraps up 2016 with the second half of his 'best of,' including The Rolling Stones, Lou Reed, Alejandro Escovedo, Solange, Van Morrison, Wilco, and more!

By Bill Bentley

Bentley's Bandstand: Reissues Round-Up

Friday, January 22, 2016

Music industry veteran Bill Bentley selects the very best reissues of 2015. There are no less than 25 reviews - from Lou Reed to James Booker, Danny Lile to the Muffs. Definitely something here for everyone!

By Bill Bentley

Bentley's Bandstand: January 2016

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Music industry veteran Bill Bentley reviews ten great music books released over the course of 2015.

By Bill Bentley

Album Reviews: The Velvet Underground - Loaded: Reloaded (45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition) and The Complete Matrix Tapes

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Two massive new box sets are overflowing with great music from one of America's most important rock bands.

By Jeff Burger

Due Oct. 30: The Velvet Underground Classic Loaded - 5CD/DVD 45th Anniversary Edition

Friday, August 28, 2015

In recent years, The Velvet Underground catalog has been celebrated with definitive and lavish anniversary editions. It is with good reason that such microscopic attention has been given to this band.

By Matt Rowe

Music Review: The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Three different mixes of the entire self-titled album, plus the 1969 sessions sounding better than ever. Also includes two discs of transcendent live material (most of it previously unreleased).

By Chaz Lipp

Blu-ray Review: Lou Reed - Classic Albums: Transformer & Live at Montreux 2000

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

A double-feature that upgrades two previously available DVD releases to Blu-ray with lossless audio. An examination of Reed's first classic album is paired with a blistering, late-career concert.

By Chaz Lipp

Music Review: The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (45th Anniversary Edition)

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Developing this three-disc reissue was one of the final projects of Lou Reed's life. On December 10, VU fans can hear what he and John Cale cooked up.

By Chaz Lipp

A Bit of Magic in Everything: Remembering the Music of Lou Reed

Friday, November 1, 2013

Lou Reed is rightly being remembered for his work with The Velvet Underground and his early solo records, but his later releases deserve just as much attention.

By Chaz Lipp

Rock Icon Lou Reed, Dead at 71

Monday, October 28, 2013

Lou Reed will be missed by many. I am among those those who feel the escaping air from the rent in the fabric of rock and roll. I just remember to breathe, not gasp.

By Matt Rowe

Bentley's Bandstand: Jake and the Rest of the Jewels, Lowe Country, The Velvet Underground & Nico

Thursday, November 1, 2012

The Velvets, on the other hand, opened the way for reality in all its glory to invade the practice rooms of musicians everywhere, giving them the freedom of expression wherever it took them.

By Bill Bentley

Bentley's Bandstand: J.D. McPherson, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Velvet Underground

Thursday, May 31, 2012

In a time when so much of the world looks like it's spinning out of control, just maybe this music can make a true difference. It's like the man said in the film Greaser's Palace: "If you feel, you're healed." The line starts right here.

By Bill Bentley

Lou Reed/Metallica Collaboration Tells Tale of Lulu

Friday, September 30, 2011

The new album is called Lulu and centers conceptually around the writings of a German expressionist writer. Frank Wedekind, who wrote "Earth Spirit" and "Pandora's Box" in the early 1900s crafted stories that paint a depraved picture of a young abused dancer (Lulu), and her relationships.

By Matt Rowe

Metallica and Lou Reed: Art Snobs

Sunday, September 4, 2011

It’s not the first time that Metallica has released controversial album art. Who among us can forget the twin album covers of Load and Reload, featuring original artwork by outsider photographer Andres Serrano?

By Jaan Uhelszki

Hey You, Get Off of My Cloud: Metallica Playing Cloud Computing Event

Friday, August 26, 2011

Metallica cry babies? Well according to the always sensitive Kirk Hammett they are. In a rare interview with Contact Music, he revealed he broke down when they recorded the song "Junior Dad" for Lulu, their upcoming collaboration with Lou Reed.

By Jaan Uhelszki